In The Dark

4.7 (189)
TRUE CRIME
SERIES

In the Dark, hosted by Madeleine Baran, is an award-winning investigative-journalism podcast that started in 2016. Its first season looked at the mysterious abduction of Jacob Wetterling in rural Minnesota and the lack of accountability that sheriffs face when they fail to solve cases. Season 2 examined the case of Curtis Flowers, who was tried six times for the same crime. In 2020, In the Dark released a special report on the coronavirus pandemic in the Mississippi Delta. In 2023, In the Dark joined The New Yorker and Condé Nast. “The Runaway Princesses,” a four-part series that asks why the women in Dubai’s royal family keep trying to run away, came out in January. In the Dark is a two-time Peabody Award winner and, in 2019, became the first podcast to win a George Polk Award, one of the top honors in journalism. The program has also received an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.

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Madeleine Baran

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189 Ratings

Shocking, Thorough, Brave

13 Nov

Mark, Dublin

Series 3 ups the bar on this pod’s previous highs. The reporters and researchers are brave, thorough, and persistent.
Impressive

21 Sept

tigerkat10

The amount of work put into this investigation is impressive. Such shocking subject matter but presented in a very understated way that allows the listener to form their own opinions. Each season of In the dark gets better.
Eye opening

10 Sept

cp0711

Season 3 is an masterful piece of investigative journalism. The lengths the team went to were flabbergasting, no stone left unturned. An amazing listen.
Love all of it!

13 Aug

Spkirl

Just started season 3. 1 and 2 were brilliant. Great investigation, great telling and explaination when needed. The whole family was addicted.

In the Dark, hosted by Madeleine Baran, is an award-winning investigative-journalism podcast that started in 2016. Its first season looked at the mysterious abduction of Jacob Wetterling in rural Minnesota and the lack of accountability that sheriffs face when they fail to solve cases. Season 2 examined the case of Curtis Flowers, who was tried six times for the same crime. In 2020, In the Dark released a special report on the coronavirus pandemic in the Mississippi Delta. In 2023, In the Dark joined The New Yorker and Condé Nast. “The Runaway Princesses,” a four-part series that asks why the women in Dubai’s royal family keep trying to run away, came out in January. In the Dark is a two-time Peabody Award winner and, in 2019, became the first podcast to win a George Polk Award, one of the top honors in journalism. The program has also received an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.